Tough Times In Wales For Cambrian
Despite the positive sounds being chimed by the industry at the moment, times will still remain tough in some parts as is currently being demonstrated in Pembrokeshire, Wales as the fate of Cambrian Windows is [...]
Last Day For Comet
Today is a sad day for many thousands of people and for the high streets and retail parks of this country. The on going process of trying to sell electrical retailer Comet failed finally today, [...]
Rankins Goes Into Administration
One of the UK's oldest glazing companies has fallen victim to the sharp decline in the UK construction sector. Rankins, based in East London and in business since way back in 1880, have called in [...]
Comet To Disappear From The High Street
Today we had the news that one of the biggest companies on our high streets and retail parks is about to disappear for good altogether. Comet confirmed that they will be formally appointing administrators next [...]
BBC Report: Uniglaze To Close Factory
The ongoing story of the administration of Uniglaze 2 in Norfolk has taken a sad turn today. The BBC website is reporting that Uniglaze is to close it's factory in Costessey with the loss of [...]
Uniglaze Go Into Administration
The tough times keep on coming for the double glazing industry. This time Norfolk is the recipient of the bad news. Uniglaze, based in Norwich in East Anglia has been forced to call in the [...]
Times Still Tough As Door Panels Ltd Goes Bust
The online double glazing community on Twitter was awash with rumours and speculation a couple of weeks ago that Door Panels Ltd was on the verge of going over board. And indeed it turned out [...]
JJB Disappears From High Street
1st October 2012 is another sad day to mark down in the calendar of the stricken high street. It was announced on this day (yesterday) that a last attempt to save the high street chain, [...]
Group Home Safe Acquire Fab & Fix
I noticed this Tweet today:@Frametrade1 Group Home Safe acquire Fab & Fix#handles Surely big news in the hardware section of our industry? I would like to know how much Fab & Fix was bought for. [...]
Call From The Competition Commission
We received a call from the Competition Commission earlier on today, asking to speak to the person in charge of the purchasing of PVCu materials and products. That person wasn't in to speak to, so [...]
Good News For Launa Windows!
I can report good news! Last week I reported about the Devon company Launa Windows going into administration. Well this week I can report that they have now been bought, and been bought as a [...]
Ultraframe Buys Quantal, Synseal Pretty Much Buys K2
It's been a rather dramatic day in world of conservatory roofs! Ultraframe have bought aluminium conservatory roof company Quantal. And it was revealed the earlier on in the day that Synseal have bought the assets [...]
Should Suppliers Refuse To Sell To Phoenix Companies?
I got sent this today: If you can't read the text, you should be able to click on the image to enlarge it. Anyway, the point that was made to me in the accompanying email [...]
Avocet Bought By Atlantic Group
Over the weekend I was informed of some good news, that Avocet have been bought and avoid going out of business altogether. The company which has bought the business appears to be Atlantic Group, which [...]
>Epwin Group And Latium Merge With Immediate Effect
>Â A tweet from the @glasstimes Twitter account reads as follows:Â "The Epwin Group and Latium have merged with immediate effect to create Epwin Holdings, a 275million turnover building products group." To be honest, I'm a little [...]
>How Long Left For HMV?
>HMV announced figures today that in the 5 weeks leading up to Christmas in 2011, sales were down 8.2% in comparison to the same 5 weeks in the year before.You know things are bad when [...]
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